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Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom
. Ed(S): Helot, Christine (Universite Marc Bloch); O'laoire, Muiris
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Paperback. The book explores the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds, forcing educationalists to question entrenched ideologies of language and challenging teachers in their everyday classrooms to rethink their relationships to language learning and the issue of diversity. Editor(s): Helot, Christine (Universite Marc Bloch); O'Laoire, Muiris. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CFDM; JNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
With contributions from leading scholars all around the world, this volume underlines the ever-pressing need for new language in education policies to include all learners’ voices in the multilingual classroom and to empower teachers to develop responsive and transformative pedagogies. Using testimonies, narratives and examples from different international contexts, this book points clearly to what can be achieved practically in the multilingual classroom so that multilingual learners’ voices are legitimated, while also addressing the complex inter-relating sociolinguistic issues around the promotion of bilingualism and multilingualism in education.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847693662
SKU
V9781847693662
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About . Ed(S): Helot, Christine (Universite Marc Bloch); O'laoire, Muiris
Christine Hélot is a professor of English and teacher educator at the University of Strasbourg in France. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College (Dublin). She has published several books and numerous articles both in French and English on bilingualism and bilingual education, language education policies, language awareness and intercultural education. Muiris Ó Laoire ... Read more
Reviews for Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom
In this book, Hélot and O’Laoire fill the gaps that Hélot has so well identified in the past with possibilities - possibilities to educate for social equity and plurilingualism. But instead of arguing for top-down language education policies, Hélot and O’Laoire open possibilities in the ecology of classrooms through the agency of teachers and students. Focusing on pedagogies of the ... Read more